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Author's Talk: The Way History Matters - The “Comfort Women” Disputes Between Japan and South Korea

Announcement published by Ryogo Watanabe on Thursday, March 15, 2018

Type:

Lecture

Date:

March 14, 2018

Location:

District Of Columbia, United States

Subject Fields:

East Asian History / Studies, Japanese History / Studies, Korean History / Studies

We invite a recognized authority on a Japan-Korea relationship, Dr. Kan Kimura, a professor of Kobe University, to the exhibition of the 2018 AAS annual conference at Washington, D.C. and he is going to give a 30-minute lecture on the “comfort women” disputes between the two countries.

Why do the issues surrounding the “Comfort Women” remain unresolved? Why does the dispute between Japan and South Korea fail to move toward any resolution, and even continues to intensify, as time passes? A leading researcher on the political history of Japan-Korea relations explains the current situation in terms of the way the citizens of both countries nurture their different perspectives on modern history and represent themselves to the international community.